Germantaun: Gedruckt und zu haben von Michael Billmeyer, 1812. 12mo, pp. [32]; the first and last leaf used as pastedowns; original sheep-backed printed boards, showing on the back cover a portrait of Martin Luther with a nine-line biography beneath, and a German alphabet on the front cover within a frame... More
Boston: R. P. and C. Williams, stereotyped by B. & J. Collins, 1818. Small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3½"), engraved frontispiece, sectional title page for the N.T.; contemporary full sheep, gilt borders on covers enclosing a central gilt panel, gilt-decorated spine with 2 morocco labels and fillets also with gilt... More
London: Mark Baskett ... and by the assigns of Robert Baskett, 1767. Large paper copy (measuring nearly 5 centimeters larger than that cited in Darlow & Moule), large 4to, 1 volume expanded to 2, unpaginated; sectional title page for the N.T.; contemporary full red goatskin, elaborate borders on covers incorporating... More
Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1843. 12mo, pp. 681; two steel-engraved plates bound in front, 10 woodcut plates; full contemporary blind-tooled sheep, all-over gilt, elaborate gilt spine in 5 compartments, a.e.g., sky-blue endpapers; edges a bit rubbed and worn; preliminaries browned and foxed, two faint pencil ownership signatures, else a.... More
Brookfield: printed by E. Merriam and Co., 1815. Thick 8vo, pp. 735, [1] (O.T.), [4] (family record), [168] (Apocrypha), [736]-959, [1] (N.T.); text in double column; full contemporary calf, black morocco label on spine; text toned throughout; good and sound. Hills, English Bible in America, 273: "This edition consisted of 12,000 copies." More
Hartford: printed by Hudson & Co., 1817. Thick 12mo, pp. [810], text in double column; full contemporary speckled paneled sheep; very good. With an early printed leaf of ownership inserted at the beginning, reading "Sarah Sawyer. / Book / Sarah Sawyer. / Book / Winstead" (i.e. Winstead, CT), and with... More
Hartford: printed by Hudson and Co., 1816. Thick 12mo, pp. [810], text in double column; full contemporary sheep; several gatherings extended, else good and sound. With an early color pen & bookplate pasted inside the upper cover for John Bottum, incorporating a chrysanthium with an oblate frame surrounded by oriental... More
New York: stereotyped for: The American Bible Society by D. & G. Bruce, 1821. Thick 8vo, pp. 836, [1]; text in double column; full contemporary calf, black morocco label on spine, "American Bible Society" blindstamped on upper cover; good and sound. Hills, English Bible in America, 418. More
Philadelphia: A. J. Holman & Co., 1874. Holman's Edition, large, heavy 4to, pp. [2], viii, 9-40, 9-857 (O.T.), [1], 139 (Apocrypha), [1], [2], 264, 837-848, 60 (concordance), 24 (Psalms in metre); 1 folding wood-engraved panorama, 12 steel-engraved plates, 2 inserted pro-forma chromolithograph pages of births, deaths and memoranda, facsimiles of... More
Brattleborough, VT: Holbrook & Fessenden, 1824. Holbrook & Fessenden's Stereotype Hot-Press Edition, thick 4to, pp. [3]-683 (O.T.), [1], [2] (wood-engraved leaves of family register), 159, [1] (Apocrapha), 687-930 (N.T.), [2], 56 (concordance), 121 (Practical Observations on the Old and New Testaments ... by the Rev. Mr. Ostervald, professor of Divinity... More
Philadelphia: Jesper Harding, 1854. Harding's Superfine Edition, 4to, pp. [4], 787, [1]; 600, 35 (concordance), [1], 18 (Psalms of David in metre); text in double column, inserted chromolithogrph frontispiece and title age to both the N.T. and the O.T., second volume with separate title page (same impint); 9 chromolithograph plates,10... More
Cooperstown, NY: H. & E. Phinney ... sold also by I. Tiffany, Utica, 1841. E.& H. Phinney's Sterotype Edition, 4to, pp. 576, [4], 99 (Apocrapha), [1], [577]-768; text in double column, N.T. with a separate title page dated 1842; 10 woodcut plates, 2 leaves of "Family Register"; original elaborate engine-tooled... More
Philadelphia: printed and sold by Kimber and Sharpless, n.d., [ca. 1826]. Kimber and Shapless Stereotype Edition, 4to, pp. 4, 6, 5-570 (O.T.), 112 (Apocrypha), [571]-770 (N>T.), 54 (concordance); text in double column, concordanc ijn quadruple column, 2 inserted leaves of family register at the beginning of the N.T.; 3 engraved... More
Brattleborough, VT: [printed and sold by J. Holbrook], 1816. First Brattleborough and first Holbrook edition, published by subscription; thick 4to, pp. 930, [2], 56 (Brown's Concordance ... revised and corrected, with sepatate title page also dated 1816); text in double column; 2 inserted engraved title pages (O.T. and N.T.), frontispiece... More
New York: 1890. Large folio (15½"), being vol. XLII, complete, 1858 pages, from January 2 to December 25, 1890; numerous illustrated advertisements; a few marginal tears, in a new library binding of full black cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover, old library rubberstamp on page edges, a few... More
Manchester, N.H. Hillsborough Lodge, 1843, 1851. Broadside, 4to (287 mm.); printed certificate accomplished in manuscript, engraved decorative borders by J.H. & G.W. Casilear; previous folds, else fine. Printed date 1843, certificate accomplished September 1st, 1851, certifying that "Mrs. Mary Ann Kidder, whose name is written on the margin of this... More
Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1907. Large 8vo, pp. [147]-308; original wrappers, bound in modern blue buckram with gilt-stamped spine; pages uncut; a pristine copy of this quarterly journal. Contents include "Federal and State Aid Education in Iowa"; "The Beginnings of Liquor Legislation in Iowa"; "A Brief... More
Morris, N.Y. A.S. Avery, job printer, n.d., [1859]. Broadside, approx 48" x 17½" (61 x 45 cm.), a few small creases and short tears at extremities, but in all a very good example. NY Historical Soc., AAS, Library Co., and Huntington in OCLC. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1927. 8vo, pp. 350; 1 photographic plate; later burgundy buckram, gilt lettering to spine; interior fine. At head of title: Deutsch-Americanische Geschichtsblätter, German-American Historical Review (Published with the co-operation of the Germanic Society of America)" More
N.p. ca. 1950s. Accomplished color photographic jigsaw puzzle (371 x 286 mm.) mounted to cardboard base depicting pensive television cowboy Roy Rogers of the Roy Rogers Show with his Palomino horse. Edges a bit scuffed, else very good. A child's level puzzle with the pieces cut into crude but familiar... More
Providence: RI Hist. Soc. 1965. First edition, 4to, extensively illustrated; slip with additional sponsors and errata laid in; fine in original brown cloth lettered in black and white. More
[Saint Paul: designed and printed by Gerald Lange at The Bieler Press], 1982. Edition limited to an unspecified number of copies, small 8vo, pp. [4], 71, [1]; 14 tipped-in photographic plates; original gray printed wrappers; fine. A work done by Gerald Lange for hire, and among the rarest of books... More
Saint Paul: Earle S. Goodrich, 1857. 8vo, pp. 209, [1]; original brown cloth, printed paper label on the upper cover; upper cover spotted, first 64 pages toned and foxed; all else very good. More
Saint Paul: James M. Goodhue, 1851. 8vo, pp. 224; original printed blue wrappers, neatly rebacked; some spotting of the text, but near fine copy printed by Minnesota's first printer. Martin 29. Sabin 49257, citing 1850 journal. More
Saint Paul: James M. Goodhue, 1852. 8vo, pp. 258; original printed wrappers, some soiling, nick in front wrap near head of spine, a larger section torn away from bottom right corner slightly affecting text, some creasing, faint signature in pencil of "Ramsey" (unattributed) on cover; a very good or better... More
